What will I be doing?
- Define and drive Settlements' product vision, strategy, and roadmap, aligning with company goals and merchant needs.
- Own the end-to-end settlement experience: from real-time balance calculation to withdrawal requests, fund transfers, and settlement reporting.
- Partner with engineering to deliver scalable, reliable, and automated settlement flows, supporting multiple currencies, settlement models, and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with Treasury and Finance to automate settlement operations, reduce manual intervention, and ensure accurate, timely fund disbursement.
- Work with Compliance to ensure settlement processes meet local and cross-border regulatory standards, including reporting and safeguarding requirements.
- Engage with merchant-facing teams to understand pain points, gather feedback, and deliver clear, actionable settlement reporting and dashboards.
- Monitor and analyze settlement performance metrics (e.g., settlement speed, error rates, reconciliation gaps), driving continuous improvement.
- Lead migration initiatives to new balance and settlement systems, ensuring minimal merchant disruption and clear communication.
- Stay up-to-date on industry trends, regulatory changes, and new technologies impacting settlements in emerging markets.
What skills do I need?
- 5+ years of product management experience in payments, fintech, or financial operations.
- Experience in settlements, fund movements (cross-border, local, FX), treasury, or reconciliation is a plus.
- Experience designing and delivering automated, scalable products.
- Strong analytical skills; comfortable working with large datasets to identify patterns, gaps, and opportunities.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, especially with engineering, treasury, finance, and compliance.
- Proven ability to prioritize and deliver high-impact product changes in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex financial concepts into clear requirements and merchant-facing documentation.
- Fluency in English is required; Spanish or Portuguese is a plus.
Top Skills
What We Do
dLocal started with one goal – to close the payments innovation gap between global enterprise companies, and customers in emerging economies. We have over 900 payment methods, in more than 40 countries.
With the ability to accept local payment methods and facilitate cross-border fund settlement worldwide, our merchants reach billions of underserved consumers in the high-growth markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. dLocal offers the ideal payment solutions for global commerce:
Payins: Accept local payment methods
Payouts: Compliantly send funds cross-border
Defense Suite: Manage fraud effectively
dLocal for Platforms: Unify your platform’s payment solution
Local Issuing: Localize payments for your gig-economy workers, suppliers, and partners







